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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? |
Date: | Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Bastien wrote: > `make help' would display a one-line help about the various > available targets: sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):.*/\1/p' Makefile # plus uniq... They are all pretty much standard targets, and documented at the top of the Makefile. > Documenting `make extraclean' is not important IMO but documenting > `make bootstrap' could be: there are often questions on emacs-devel > which are answered by "You need to `make bootstrap'." It is written in INSTALL.BZR... > I guess `make help' could give a better exposure to this option? I'm not optimistic that any more people will read this than read INSTALL.BZR or the commentary in the Makefile.
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